OBITUARIES

Editor's letter

The road to Leonidas Kavakos’s first complete

Contributors

LIHAY BENDAYAN (Technique, page 78) is professor of

SOUNDPOST

Letters, emails, online comments

Food for thought

News and events from around the world this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

Competition launched to loan Lynn Harrell’s old cello

Labour of love

Danny Elfman talks about his new cello concerto

COMPETITIONS

Sphinx Competition, Goodmesh Concours etc

Pretty in red

ROSIN

TRUE COLOURS

Luthiers can use Schilbach’s new Metamerism test card

HOLD ON

Including the Product of the Month

Life lessons

Franck Chevalier

IT TAKES THREE

As the Sitkovetsky Trio celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, lead violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky looks back at the lessons he and his colleagues have learnt

A learned crowd

The Cambridge Music Festival marked its 30th anniversary in the unusual format of two instalments during 2021. Toby Deller attended three performances during the autumn celebrations

DEEP THINKER

For Leonidas Kavakos, recording Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas has been the culmination of a 30‐year artistic journey and, as the violinist tells Charlotte Smith, the works have a pertinent message for our troubled times

THE LEADING EDGE

For those ensembles willing to take the plunge, performing without a conductor can lead to a greater sense of collaboration, fulfilment and, ultimately, responsibility. Jacqueline Vanasse hears from some of the string players involved in such groups

THE JOURNEYMAN YEARS

The time spent between finishing at violin making school and striking out on your own can be critical to a luthier’s learning experience. Peter Somerford finds out what makers should expect from their first jobs in a workshop – and how they can make the most of their time

LANDSCAPE OF SHADOWS

Cellist Laura van der Heijden talks to Tom Stewart about the subtle, often other-worldly atmosphere inhabited by Czech and Hungarian music in her new recording with pianist Jâms Coleman

A MAKER IN THE ROUGH

Tuscany in the 19th century was home to numerous luthiers, some of whom were carpenters who turned their hands to instrument making. Florian Leonhard examines the career of Luigi Cavallini, a lesser-known self-taught maker whose work, while unusual in parts, displays a surprisingly high level of craftsmanship

FROM FAME to FOOTNOTE

Despite his prolific output, the works of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor have been performed relatively infrequently in the century following his death. Tatjana Goldberg explores his chamber and violin music, particularly the Violin Concerto, and his fruitful artistic partnership with pioneering US violinist Maud Powell

NIELS LARSEN WINTHER

A close look at the work of great and unusual makers

Making a Parisian-eye ring

Makers reveal their special techniques

MAGNUS NEDREGÅRD

LUTHIER MAGNUS NEDREGÅRD

Her dark materials

Points of interest to violin and bow makers

BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET OP.132

BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET OP.132

MASTERCLASS

I wouldn’t usually include all the fingerings I

Developing a controlled vibrato

Developing a controlled vibrato

CONCERTS

Your monthly critical round-up of performances, recordings and publications

RECORDINGS

SEI SOLO BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo

BOOKS

COURTESY DAVID L. FULTON The Fulton Collection: A

From the ARCHIVE

Carl Fuchs pays tribute to his friend and fellow cellist Carl Davidoff (1838–89), including a reminiscence of how he acquired his famed Stradivari cello

IN THE NEXT ISSUE

GERMAN FOCUS Johannes Moser The German–Canadian cellist

JENNIFER PIKE

For the British violinist, Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata in D minor brings back fond memories of old holidays, family reunions and a three-concert marathon in 2017